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Do you remember the James Leachman story? It is a tragic story of horses left to die at a Montana ranch while disputes raged between Leachman, who owned the ranch where they were kept (situated on tribal lands) and a neighboring cattle ranching family who bought the ranch when it was foreclosed on. No one… Continue reading Leachman appeals horse abuse conviction
WRITTEN BY JAN FALSTAD / BILLINGS GAZETTE Cross-posted from The Independent Record BILLINGS, MT (Dec. 13, 2012) -- Yellowstone County Justice of the Peace Larry Herman sentenced Billings livestock breeder James Leachman on Wednesday to serve five years in the Yellowstone County Detention Facility, with all but 120 days suspended, for horse abuse. The judge… Continue reading Leachman sentenced to jail for horse abuse
Cross-posted from the Billings Gazette WRITTEN BY JAN FALSTAD BILLINGS -- ( A jury was selected Monday during the opening day of trial for James Leachman of Billings, who is charged with abusing five horses on a ranch he once owned on the Crow Reservation. A jury of six with two alternates was sworn in… Continue reading Leachman horse abuse trial begins
Cross-posted from TheHorse.com Written by PAT RAIA Prosecutors in Yellowstone County, Mont., have requested that a new judge assume the James Leachman animal cruelty case after Leachman's son Seth Leachman filed suit against Justice of the Peace Pedro Hernandez, the judge currently presiding over the case. In December the herd of 450 horses were residing… Continue reading Prosecutors request new Judge in James Leachman horse cruelty case
Cross-posted from Billings Gazette Written by JAN FALSTAD BILLINGS, Montana (April 20, 2011) -- Yellowstone County Justice Court Judge Pedro Hernandez accepted rancher James Leachman's not guilty plea Wednesday to an eighth primary count of misdemeanor animal cruelty. The judge then gave Leachman 10 days to move the last of his horses off the Home… Continue reading Leachman given 10 days to move horses
The Leachman horse abuse case belongs in the "Believe It or Not" category. Cross-posted from Reno Gazette Written by GREG TUTTLE James Leachman, the Billings-area rancher charged with animal abuse for alleged mistreatment of a large herd of horses, has been denied a public defender. Yellowstone County Justice of the Peace Pedro Hernandez filed an… Continue reading Leachman denied public defender in horse abuse case
Colorado nonprofit writes big check for horse welfare Cross-posted from the Billings Gazette Written by JAN FALSTAD A nonprofit organization based in Colorado, the American Humane Association, donated $20,000 on Monday toward caring for as many as 700 of the James Leachman horses on private and Crow Reservation land east of Billings. And the U.S.… Continue reading American Humane Association writes big check for Leachman horses
The Great Falls Tribune reports: The American Quarter Horse Association is asking people to help the more than 450 starving horses on a ranch in southeastern Montana near Billings. The AQHA and Tractor Supply Company have donated water tanks for the horses and hay was airlifted in earlier this week, according to the Associated Press.… Continue reading Who is responsible for the Leachman horses?
Cross-posted from the Billings Gazette Written by JAN FALSTAD Billings Flying Service airlifted about 20 tons of hay, one round bale at a time, Thursday morning to hundreds of hungry horses on a ranch east of Billings along Highway 87E. Also on Thursday, Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office officials used a borrowed John Deere tractor and… Continue reading First hay drop for starving Montana horses a success
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